{"product_id":"9781681371818","title":"Uncertain Glory","description":"A \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEWS\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF 2017\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA classic Catalan work about love, family, and class during the Spanish Civil war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSpain,  1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Lluís Ruscalleda  eschews the drunken antics of his comrades and goes in search of  intrigue. But the lady of Castel de Olivo—a beautiful widow with a  shadowy past—puts a high price on her affections. In Barcelona, Trini  Milmany struggles to raise Lluís’s son on her own, letters from the  front her only solace. With bombs falling as fast as the city’s morale,  she leaves to spend the winter with Lluís’s brigade on a quiet section  of the line. But even on “dead” fronts the guns do not stay silent for  long. Trini’s decision will put her family’s fate in the hands of Juli  Soleràs, an old friend and a traitor of easy conscience, a  philosopher-cynic locked in an eternal struggle with himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoan  Sales, a combatant in the Spanish Civil War, distilled his experiences  into a timeless story of thwarted love, lost youth, and crushed  illusions. A thrilling epic that has drawn comparison with the work of  Dostoyevsky and Stendhal, \u003ci\u003eUncertain Glory\u003c\/i\u003e is a homegrown counterpart to classics such as \u003ci\u003eHomage to Catalonia \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFor Whom the Bell Tolls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174843138288,"sku":"9781681371818","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681371818_p0.jpg?v=1763692294","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681371818","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}